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CALL TO WORSHIP adapted from Psalm 86

• LEADER: Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
• PEOPLE: You are my God; save Your servant who trusts.
• LEADER: Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
• PEOPLE: Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

HYMN Grace Alone

• Every promise we can make,
• Every prayer and step of faith,
• Every difference we will make
• Is only by his grace.
• Every mountain we will climb,
• Every ray of hope we shine,
• Every blessing left behind,
• Is only by his grace.

Refrain:

• Grace alone
• Which God supplies,
• Strength unknown
• He will provide.
• Christ in us
• Our cornerstone;
• We will go forth
• in grace alone.

• Every soul we long to reach,
• every heart we hope to teach,
• everywhere we share his peace
• is only by his grace.
• Every loving word we say,
• every tear we wipe away,
• every sorrow turned to praise,
• is only by his grace. (Refrain)

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

SCRIPTURE Romans 8:22-23 (NRSVUE)

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor, 23 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Children's Moment

HYMN El Shaddai

• El Shaddai, El Shaddai, El Elyonna Adonai;
• Age to age you’re still the same
• by the power of your name
• El Shaddai, El Shaddai, Er-kahm-Ka na Adonai;
• We will praise and lift you high,
• El Shaddai.

Translation of Hebrew:

• El Shaddai: God Almighty
• El Elyonna: The Most High God
• Adonai: O Lord
• Erkahmka: We will love you

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

HYMN El Shaddai

Special Music:  Kim Brotherton – “God Help the Outcasts”

SCRIPTURE Ecclesiastes 1:3 (NRSVUE)

3 What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NRSVUE)

13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of everyone.

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MESSAGE: What If Christianity is True?

HYMN:  Trust and Obey

• When we walk with the Lord
• in the light of his word,
• what a glory he sheds on our way!
• While we do his good will,
• he abides with us still,
• and with all who will trust and obey.

Refrain:

• Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
• to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
• Not a burden we bear,
• not a sorrow we share,
• but our toil he doth richly repay;
• not a grief or a loss,
• not a frown or a cross,
• but is blest if we trust and obey. [Refrain]

• But we never can prove
• the delights of his love
• until all on the altar we lay;
• for the favor he shows,
• for the joy he bestows,
• are for them who will trust and obey. [Refrain]

• Then in fellowship sweet
• we will sit at his feet,
• or we’ll walk by his side in the way;
• what he says we will do,
• where he sends we will go;
• never fear, only trust and obey. [Refrain].

BENEDICTION

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